Month: December 2008

In these wee small hours of 2008, some quick thoughts. Researchers have broken SSL CA root certificates via the MD5 collision issues. No great surprise, I think anyone who gave this some serious thought saw this coming. End of the world? No, not really. Invalid […]

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Botnets were just the beginning. The bad guys will continue to use these to try and steal your data, but more sophisticated attacks over the application layer and targeted network attacks are on the way. In this Network World Podcast, Danny McPherson from Arbor Networks […]

But this time it’s not Storm, nor does it even seem at all like Storm. This one is dubbed Waldec. Infection strategy: entice email users to come to the website and get a greeting card. No graphics, but it will entice you anyhow. “Daniel just […]

Today it’s an American Express phish. In the past few weeks it’s been JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, CitiGroup, Colonial Bank, and many others. All of them are using fast flux hosting techniques on the same hosts. I don’t know the name of this botnet […]

Recently a couple of news reports have come in that suggest that someone has changed how they do SSH brute force attacks: Spike in failed SSH logins could be beginnings of a coordinated attack, ISC says from the TechTarget blogs on October 22. Distributed SSH […]

The Gozi infostealer is running around, this time using new domains and a new lure: a “video invitation from your classmates”. This has been going on all week, too. In an email purporting to be from Classmates.com, you’re told to go look at a web […]

In light of the recent tensions between India and Pakistan following the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, I went looking for signs of DDoS attacks in either India or Pakistan, possibly attributable to the other country. I had read reports that some cyberattacks had occurred […]

Yesterday was “Cyber Monday”, so named for the kickoff of the online sales binge that so many Americans go through. The thinking is that Friday is for brick and mortar sales, and Monday is when folks get to work and use their high speed links […]

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